Alexander MacLaren
Alexander MacLaren
experience tribulation parentheses
You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.
mistake fool sin
Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"
religious knowledge character
Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my religious position and character.
jesus father long
The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.
men christ ifs
If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether.
men doe reason
Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.
love-is foundation obedience
Love is the foundation of all obedience.
death doors house
Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.
winning world hammers
If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
christian heart hands
He who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs.
men perfect temptation
Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.
humility waiting soul
Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .
worship acceptable
Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins.
christian love-is giving
The manliness of Christian love, and the putting away from ourselves of all fear, because we are " perfected in love," is one of the highest lessons that the gospel teaches us, and one of the greatest things which the gospel gives us.